How to win: National Education and Training for NHS Professionals in Advanced Clinical Practice

About this contract

NHS England's Workforce, Training and Education Directorate sets out a suite of Education and Training programmes which are supported financially by NHS England as a corporate body. This is a wide ranging list of programmes covering most professional groups. This procurement is for one of the programmes within this education and training offer. The overall Procurement is titled as Advanced Clinical Practice, and will include a review of the current provision, including rationalisation of the current programmes, and identification of new, aligned programmes. The current programmes under review for this reprocurement are: Advanced Clinical Practitioner, Advanced Clinical Practitioner - Critical Care, Advanced Clinical Practitioner - Mental Health, Advanced Clinical Practitioner - Supervision, Advanced Clinical Practitioner - Surgical Care, Advanced Clinical Practitioner - Top Up, Advanced Clinical Practitioner - Neo-nates, Advanced Clinical Practitioner - Specialist Portfolio (Training grant - i.e. FICM and MSK)

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• ✓Answer against the marking scheme, not the question text — NHS England scores each response, so map your evidence to the published criteria and weightings.
• ✓At £187,000,000, expect quality and social value to carry a large share of the score — price alone rarely wins services work.
• ✓Show recent, comparable delivery: name similar services contracts you've delivered for public bodies, with measurable outcomes.
• ✓Start early: it closes 30 November 2026 and a strong bid takes iteration.

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